Rendering (design)
The term rendering (Engl. To render; in German: image synthesis ) describes the creation of a graphic from raw data (such as geographic information) or a sketch.
Product development
In product development, especially in automobile design , it is used to describe the implementation of a sketch, often drawn up beforehand with a pencil or ballpoint pen, in a differentiated representation. The implementation is laid out with markers (based on alcohol or water) as well as with colored pencils or chalk (often in combination) so that by modeling natural phenomena such as texture , refraction , reflection , shadow , etc. the viewer gets an impression of the materiality, conveying size and shape.
Computer graphics
Since the mid-1990s, this process has increasingly been carried out using computer graphics with the appropriate software. Derived from this, the term in information technology describes the final completion of a previously programmed (for example with the POV-Ray program ) or with a design program (such as Cinema 4D or Blender ) made raw design, which only becomes a final image through rendering becomes. Video cutting programs do not deliver a coherent film until the rendering process has been completed. Raw data used as geographic information z. B. from sources of the OpenStreetMap project, are rendered to geographic maps.